Proverbs 14:31
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31 Whoever oppresses a poor man (A)insults his (B)Maker,
(C)but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:2
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Proverbs 17:5
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5 Whoever mocks the poor (A)insults his Maker;
he who is (B)glad at calamity will not go (C)unpunished.
Proverbs 19:17
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Proverbs 22:16
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16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
or gives to the rich, (A)will only come to poverty.
1 John 4:21
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21 And (A)this commandment we have from him: (B)whoever loves God must also love his brother.
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1 John 3:17-21
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17 But (A)if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet (B)closes his heart against him, (C)how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not (D)love in word or talk but in deed and (E)in truth.
19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, (F)if our heart does not condemn us, (G)we have confidence before God;
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2 Corinthians 8:7-9
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7 But as (A)you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you[a]—(B)see that you excel in this act of grace also.
8 (C)I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that (D)though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
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- 2 Corinthians 8:7 Some manuscripts in your love for us
Ecclesiastes 5:8
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The Vanity of Wealth and Honor
8 (A)If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, (B)do not be amazed at the matter, (C)for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
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Job 31:13-16
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13 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,
when they brought a complaint against me,
14 what then shall I do when God rises up?
When he (A)makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
15 Did (B)not he who made me in the womb make him?
And did not one fashion us in the womb?
16 “If I have (C)withheld anything that the poor desired,
or have (D)caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
John 12:8
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8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
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Matthew 25:40-46
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40 And (A)the King will answer them, (B)‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these (C)my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, (D)‘Depart from me, you (E)cursed, into (F)the eternal fire prepared for (G)the devil and his angels. 42 For (H)I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, (I)you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away (J)into eternal punishment, but the righteous (K)into (L)eternal life.”
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- Matthew 25:40 Or brothers and sisters
Proverbs 22:22-23
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22 (A)Do not rob the poor, because he is poor,
or (B)crush the afflicted at (C)the gate,
23 for (D)the Lord will plead their cause
and rob of life those who rob them.
Proverbs 14:21
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Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because (A)the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
(B)I will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the (C)safety for which he longs.”
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